Fox News No details yet, but ther was a recent story about an AQ threat. Anyone hear any more?

A construction crew cut into a power line. The real terrorists in Califronia are the various public and commercial outfits that feel obligated to throw up roadblocks and dig up streets without any semblence of coordination or communication. A japanese engineer laid off by Mitsubishi just invented a shovel that stands up by itself. So with luck the guys paid to stand around holding them will either be laid off or actually spend some time calling the other utilities. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

In reply to Chris:

A True Story (at least as related to me):
One day a road crew from the southwest highway district of Mississippi radioed in that "they had forgotten their shovels". Their supervisor radioed back that he'd bring them and that they'd "have to lean against each other until he got there". Everyone else got to share this little moment of levity because they were using the statewide low-band network!


Jim

I was driving on a small backroad from a client site when I came upon a 4 way stop. There was a state owned pickup truck coming up the berm of the cross road and they had removed the passenger door and there was a driver and passenger buckled in with the A/C blowing on them with the passenger leaning out with a stick poking trash and tossing it into the truck bed. That way neither had to get out and walk or carry a trashbag, they just drove slowly along the road.

The story around here goes: What's yellow and sleeps four? A state highway truck.

O.K. apologies to any utility or roadworkers for a little humour in sad times. I don't want any shovels thrown at me, either from a truck or somebody walking <img src="/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" /> If anything, all these threats have renewed interest in being prepared. Our own website visits and local news briefs on car kits and home supplies have increased dramatically. I did find it amusing <img src="/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" /> listening to LAPD chief Bratten state this was a small wakeup call for greater events. My cosmopolitan ear can quick tune to a persian gas station attendant, jewish deli owner, tibetan monk and even an austrian Governor. But hearing an accent out of a Batman movie set in the east coast is still hard. I almost hope the 'big one' comes and gives the chief a California baptism <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> What really annoys me is the perpetrator of this threat is another immature lost soul who thinks he can 'find himself' by getting lost in another culture. It used to be they would either join the hare krishnas and annoy people at LAX or enlist in a confederate re enactor's regiment and periodically stumble onto a marijuana farm in the local state parks. An old chicano friend converted to Islam. I don't object, except Jose Figeroa is now Suleiman Abdullah Mohamet or something. I told him that since Judaism, Christianity and Islam were all 'children of Abraham' it was stupid to surrender the name of one allready given. Jose, or Mo got angry and said his father's name was Luis, not Abraham. I said " Jose. you've taken the term pocho to a place even Cheech Marin couldn't imagine." I'm almost sorry I didn't keep the hare krisha's viable buying a white carnation <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

"But hearing an accent out of a Batman movie set in the east coast is still hard."

Hey, I resemble that remark! <img src="/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> Wait'll youse guys hear a good Lawn Guyland accent.